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Damn! Randomly scrolled onto a video on 'top 6 f1 drivers with the most races without a win', and it's just a list with 4 of my favorite drivers.

I guess I have a type...

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real sadists understand that you can torture The Character simply by forcing them to live with themself

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i see a post talking doom and gloom about how we'll never escape toxic masculinity. i think about back in 2017 when american girl released their first boy doll, and a review for him went viral in the collecting community. the review was written by a mom, who said they went into the store to get their daughter a doll, only to see their son's eyes light up like fire when he saw a doll that looked like him, and now every night he puts his doll in pajamas and rocks him to sleep. i think about the toddler in my daycare room a few years back who was obsessed with baby dolls, carrying them everywhere, and his mom proudly told us he uses his sisters' old baby dolls and wants to be just like them. that toddler saw another toddler crying one day and gave her the doll he had to cheer her up. i think about the eight-year-old boy i saw a few years back, excitedly waving around raya's sword in a target checkout line like all his dreams were coming true. there was a video on my instagram the other day of a little boy at disneyworld crying with joy upon meeting his hero, mulan. i think about the voice actor for bow in the she-ra reboot saying his nephews only wanted adora action figures. celebrity men are wearing dresses on tv now. last halloween i saw a little boy dressed as elsa. i went to go see spiderverse over the summer, and in the line ahead of me was a boy who couldn't be older than twelve or thirteen, bouncing and beaming, giddy with excitement over getting to see the female-led romance movie elemental. i think about the five-year-old boy at my library who breathlessly asked me where the pinkalicious books were, eyes widening when i had more on my cart, his mom explaining that he is all about pinkalicious and fancy nancy. i saw so many pictures online of boys and men dressed in pink to see barbie. teenage boys are gonna open their phones and see the man who wrote fucking game of thrones dressed in pink to see barbie. when i was a kid, a boy dressing in pink was practically a social death sentence. there are boys running around in pink on my street right now.

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MONTREAL, QUEBEC - JUNE 16: Nico Hulkenberg of Germany and Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber and Peter Bayer, CEO of Visa Cash App Racing Bulls board the charter to travel to New York for F1® The Movie World Premiere on June 16, 2025 in New York, New York.

📸: Photo by Mark Sutton - Formula 1/Formula 1 via Getty Images.

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Totally random but like, I watched the vid F1 posted from hulk qualifying p3 in 2020 as super sub and yanno it reminded me, I’ve seen a lot of people call him overrated and stuff recently bc he’s never had a podium but he’s still so hyped and like, that frustrates me so much, bc he’s really THAT good, he always was, you can go back and watch old races and see him get pole in a shitty car, lead a race superbly well for quite some time while being hounded by vastly superior cars, you can hear the way the commentators would be CONSTANTLY saying that he deserved a better driver, that they could not comprehend there being a possibility he wouldn’t end up in a Ferrari or a lotus or something of a top calibre, you can hear team principals of top teams saying he deserved those drives

You know why he never got those drives? That the entire paddock pretty much agreed he deserved? His fucking HEIGHT, because he was so tall, it was viewed as an inconvenience to prospective teams, because this was an era lacking rules that would protect the taller drivers who would almost inevitably weigh more from being penalised purely bc they were tall, no big teams wanted to take a chance on him because the risk was that they’d lose to much time on track bc he would weigh more than shorter drivers, I will absolutely never forget Jenson noting him to be the worst affected by it, that he seemed to barely eat to try and keep his weight down (will also absolutely never forgive massa for being a total prick and saying ‘rules are rules’ when the drivers wanted to campaign for weight regs bc he knew he benefitted from there not being any, but that’s another issue)

We talk a lot about drivers who’ve made poor career choices, who picked the wrong teams at the wrong times and so their careers suffered, but Hulk didn’t really get a fucking choice, it’s not like he didn’t want the better teams, and it’s not even that they didn’t think he had the capabilities as a driver, he did, he really truly did, he’s an incredible driver, but he was never given a decent shot, despite the fact everyone was near CONSTANTLY sure he would, he just never did, and by the time the rules were changed, it was basically too late

He’s an incredible driver, he’s not overrated, he shouldn’t just be a funny little hulkenback meme or a podiumless meme, he’s a driver who’s career was fucked over by the fact no one was willing to take a chance on him and that’s a real shame and I will forever be enraged over it, he truly gave a great showing of himself in midfield cars when he deserved a chance at the top, maybe he couldn’t have been quite what seb and Lewis have been, but he could definitely have been right up there fighting well

So yeah, this was my random rant about the fact hulk deserved better, because he did, anyone who can hop into an f1 car on such short notice after having been out for over half a year and put said car, a midfield car, p3 in qualy, deserves some respect, also he won Le Mans and I think that’s funky of him

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rexy gonna nom you

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just got fed an abnormal amount of kibble only for it to be taken away this is cruel and mean

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watching romain race in the year 2025

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was taking shirtless selfies in bed. plushies at the edge of the screen. felt ? asau about it

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Hey! Thanks for all the beautiful GIFs and information about the 24-hour race! Do you have a favourite livery on the grid? I just saw that the Mustangs glow in the dark! That's so cool!

Hii!! I really like most liveries but a personal fave is this one:

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GIANCARLO FISICHELLA before the start of the 1997 FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

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the thing with sports tumblr is that you will follow someone and then they will post something that makes you go. oh. i am in enemy territory

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Last one :(

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hulknussen 2nd list 2 and/or 29

2: time loop or 29: time jumping/travel/fix-it -> 29 was already filled for another prompt here

roses (from fallin' for you)

It’s been, what, almost seventy thousand laps of Hungaroring? Figured one of those was going to catch him out eventually. Even if it’s all muscle memory by now.

+ nico/kevin, rated m, chose not to warn, 7.3k words, archive locked

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cat drinking ＆cat is angry.

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as it turns out 24h races are actually really enjoyable when you do not have a driver or car that your emotional well-being relies on

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Column Robin Frijns: ‘I'm worried about the future of motorsports'

Source: Formule1.NL translated from Dutch

Robin Frijns does not come from a motorsports family, nor did he have a wealthy father to build a racing career with. Still, he made it as a professional driver. However, achieving such a feat is almost impossible nowadays. What would he do as a father, and do talents still have access to motor racing?

He worked hard. He worked a lot. He had his own steel construction business, working ten to twelve-hour days. A hard worker. I’m talking about my father.

He didn’t have much interest in motorsport. And there wasn’t a lot of money to invest in my racing career. That’s okay, on the contrary: it’s remarkable that we still managed to get so far that I became and am a professional driver.

But more and more often I think: is that still possible for others? I worry about where motorsport is heading, say, in about ten years. It has already become so expensive, soon it will only be accessible to a small group, I sometimes fear… Even now, young talents’ careers are already being cut short, purely because racing has become so costly.

Large sums of money needed even for karting

I’m not even talking about Formula 1. Even in Formula 2 and 3, it’s hardly affordable anymore, we’re talking millions and tons, even large sums of money are needed for karting. I know how difficult it can be, how expensive it can be; even in ‘my time’. And that really makes you think about the future of motorsport.

My father, my family; we didn’t have large budgets to drive around with. I also ended up in motorsports by chance, through a friend of my father. We didn’t have a bad life ourselves, mind you. We went on vacation, had nothing to complain about. But paying for racing seats, no, that was not an option.

I had to rely on sponsorship and opportunities from teams. I was allowed to test in the F3 for Prema, but a seat was unaffordable. Later, as the champion of Formula BMW, I ended up in Formula Renault 2.0, and the champion of that received half a million euros in prize money to use for a place in the then Formula Renault 3.5 Series. But we knew: if I didn’t become a champion, it would be the end of my career.

Eventually, everything worked out, and I became a test driver for Sauber in Formula 1, but there was no money for a permanent spot in the GP2 – the current Formula 2. Fortunately, I was able to race a few times. But since I had little else to do, I started mentoring young people in karting.

It opened my eyes, I found it enjoyable, even though I was only 22 years old myself. I loved seeing these talents grow, asking questions that they then had to answer on the track. That’s how you improve, not by having as much money as possible.

And if I have a child who wants to get into motorsport? I don’t necessarily need it, but I would certainly help try to make the dream come true. I see it with fellow driver Nico Müller, a friend of mine. His son Fynn is about five or six years old. He also drives a kart. With a helmet that’s almost bigger than he is. To be honest: it looks very cute, money can’t compete with that. It’s wonderful to see!